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Seven enjoyed a big win last night thanks to the thrilling AFL match between West Coast and league leader Geelong. The telecast did very well in Perth (where the match was held) and Melbourne. It was enough for Seven to regain the lead for the week with tonight to go.Sunrise beat Today nationally, including a good win in Brisbane. Sunrise has now beaten Today four days out of five.The Block was the standout for Nine, easily claiming the 7pm timeslot.

Low ratings for repeat movies The Water Horse and Blood Diamond cost Nine any hope of winning the week. Excellent ratings from The Block, E.J. Whitten Legends Game and State of Origin decider gave Nine some chance, but it came third for the night behind Seven and Ten. Big audience share from 7TWO helped Seven winning the night and the week.The season 7 finale of SYTYCD boosted Eleven's (and Ten's) share.Special mention goes to last night's Super Rugby Final between the Queensland Reds and the Canterbury Crusaders. The match played in front of a sell-crowd of more than 52,000 in Brisbane, saw a record pay TV audience tune in to set a subscription ratings record with an average audience of 518,000 viewers.The Final delivered Australian subscription television its first average audience in excess of 500,000, surpassing the World Cup Qualifier match between the Socceroos and Uzbekistan, which was seen by an average audience of 431,000 in April 2009.The match also attracted some 185,000 more viewers than the previous most watched Super Rugby broadcast, which was the 2008 decider between the Crusaders and the NSW Waratahs.

Seven continued its record run at the halfway mark of the 2011 ratings season, winning all 20 survey weeks for the year, dominating in every demographic and total people. It remains the strongest run the network has ever enjoyed.Seven also has an unprecedented victory in winning all three State of Origin weeks this year.With the likes of State of Origin and The Block, Nine won 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demographics as well as Sydney and Brisbane in total people. Seven was first in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.Seven won Sunday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Nine won Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Ten bettered Seven on Wednesday and Nine on Saturday.Interestingly, both State of Origin and MasterChef episode on Wednesday were both revised upwards, SOO decider reaching 2.475 million, a new record high since OzTAM ratings began in 2001.

Seven won the night thanks largely to the grand final of Dancing with the Stars (won by chef and My Kitchen Rules judge Manu Feildel). DWTS posted excellent figures for nearly 3 hours, but a combination of factors (including school holidays and live sport on One) kept the figures down.MC did very well for Ten, but there was a huge drop-off to Ten News' carbon tax special (554,000) resulting Hawaii Five-O's season finale pulling a new low (439,000 according Ten's correct time). This was partly compensated by live netball and F1 on One, helping the digital channel posting of its highest shares this year.Nine had a bad night, with the season finale of In Their Footsteps, 60 Minutes and the repeat of The Mentalist soundly beaten.Low figures for the carbon tax specials on Ten and the ABC but good ratings for the addresses by Julia Gillard and then Tony Abbott suggest many members of the general public has made up their mind that they does not like the new tax.

The three commercial networks shared the spoils last night. While The Block again helped Nine winning in primary channels, as well as 25-54 demographics in primary channels and combined shares, Seven won in combined shares thanks to strong performances by its digital channels. Ten won 16-39 and 18-49 demographics in primary channels and combined shares.The Block hit a new season high, peaking at 1.88 million viewers. However there was a big drop-off to The Big Bang Theory. RSO rated solidly, but erratic scheduling left viewers guessing whether Nine is showing double episodes or not (last night it was a single episode). The Lady Gaga episode of ACA was easily beaten nationally by TT (ACA did win in Melbourne and Brisbane).MC and Can of Worms both went up on last week, with the United Nations episode of MC being the most-watched program of the night. If not for the overlap with The Block between 7.30pm and 8pm, MC would have attracted 1.8 million viewers or more. CI struggled again, coming fourth in the 9.30pm timeslot, won by Q&A with special guest, Prime Minister Julia Gillard.Apart from The Amazing Race Australia, which won its timeslot, and the always reliable Seven News and TT, there was not much joy for Seven in primary channels. Bones repeat rated about the same as Teen Wolf, which started in the 9.30pm timeslot last Monday before being shifted to 10.30pm last night.

After four weeks of falls, AGT bounced back last night for the first preliminary final, helping Seven to another big win. The program was the night's most-watched program, outrating MC when they went head to head (although the two programs had identical audience figures in Melbourne). W&L and DOND also did well.Last night's Central Park episode of MC, in which Ellie beat local chef Cesare Casella to win the immunity pin, posted an impressive figure and won in major demographics. However there was a big drop-off to NCIS repeat and new episode of NCIS: LA.The Block did well again for Nine last night, and Sea Patrol enjoyed a nice hike for the last ever episode. It was enough to help Nine tying with Ten for second place in primary channels.

Solid figures from The Block and Top Design helped Nine winning the night in total people in network and primary channel shares, with Ten coming second and Seven finishing a rare third in both categories. Ten won in all key demographics on primary channel shares, whilst in combined network shares it took 16-39 and 18-49, leaving 25-54 for Nine.Top Design, which marked Jamie Durie's return to Nine after nearly 4 years, had a solid debut, retaining most of The Block's lead-in, even though in total people it was well beaten by MC. Nine would have been looking for a few more viewers watching.While the New York Super Challenge episode of MC was the night's top rating program, the audience figure was well down on the past two years: 1.852 million for the Hong Kong episode in 2009 (up against State of Origin) and 2.039 million for the Paris contest last year. Offspring still did well in new timeslot but The Defenders posted a new series low.ABC and Seven both had poor night. Angry Boys continued to struggle while Covert Affairs had a less than stellar return, on a new night. Criminal Minds took a hit against the combination of Top Design, MC and Offspring.Special mention goes to Seven News, which beat Nine News by a substantial margin nationally. It was largely due to Nine News' dismal performance in Perth, where Seven News' audience figure more than quadrupled that of Nine News.

Nine did enough to win the night with solid figures by The Block and Hot Property offsetting poor performances by Inside the Human Body finale and The Footy Show. MC was little changed from Wednesday and was the night's most-watched program, helping Ten winning in all major demographics in primary channels. Repeats of SVU did OK.With a line-up of Vicar of Dibley, Desperate Housewives season finale and a plastic surgery documentary, it was not surprising that Seven came third in primary channels. However solid performances by 7TWO and 7mate helped Seven to second place in combined shares.New legal drama Crownies did quite well for the ABC, even though viewer opinions were mixed.

Seven won the night quite comfortably thanks to BH&G (which beat the NRL in Sydney), and the AFL match between the Crows and the Dons. However, Nine is still with a chance to claim the week if it can win tonight by a huge margin. The Block, which is basically a clip show on Friday nights, still won its timeslot easily.The New York MasterClass episode of MC was Ten's most-watched program of the night, while The Glee Project (which aims to find a new actor for hit show Glee) had a good start on Eleven, considering it was a ratings flop when it premiered in the US.

Seven survived a huge scare to win last week, meaning it has won 21 ratings weeks in a row. It was a miracle recovery for Seven after it came third on Wednesday.Seven won key demos 16-39, 18-49, 25-54 plus all five cities.Seven won Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Nine was first on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Ten bettered Nine on Sunday and Seven on Wednesday.Reality television took the top seven spots of the week and overall, 13 separately coded reality shows filled the top 20. Only one drama (Winners & Losers) made it into the top 20.

Nine won the night in primary channels and combined shares (edging out Seven by just 0.1%), but fell well short of securing its first weekly win. Nine included Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix in the schedule (replacing Secondhand Lions and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past), hoping to capitalise on the euphoria of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (which smashed box office records in Australia and the US), but its plan backfired when it was beaten by Nim's Island and Gladiator on Seven.Ten had mixed fourtunes with its AFL coverage. The Carlton-Collingwood blockbuster attracted nearly 86,000 fans to the MCG on a Saturday afternoon, but only 353,000 people watched the live telecast in Melbourne. The night match between St Kilda and West Coast did very well in Perth, even beating ratings leader Seven News, but the other night match between Melbourne and Port Adelaide rated poorly in Melbourne and Adelaide due to the teams' ladder positions and late start.SBS posted a huge 8% share thanks to its live coverage of Tour de France.

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Programming updateChannel Seven*Off the Map, a new (but now cancelled) series, makes its debut on Thursday July 21 at 10:40pm.The 13-part drama, set in a remote South American village, follows seven doctors running away from their lives but practicing medicine in paradise. It was created by Grey's Anatomy writer Jenna Bans, with Shonda Rhimes as one of the executive producers. The cast includes New Zealand-born actor Martin Henderson. But the series was cancelled by ABC in May.*The grand final of Australia's Got Talent will air on Tuesday July 26 at 7:30pm. That means the winner announced season final will air the following week.

7TWOThe Lakes moves to 7pm on Sunday July 24 followed by the 7TWO premiere of Homes Under the Hammer at 7:30pm.

Channel Nine*First run episodes of original UK version of Top Gear return at 8:30pm Tuesday nights from July 19. Series 17 premiered on BBC Two on June 26.*Panic at Rock Island, Nine's telemovie about a flesh-eating virus breaking out during a Sydney rock concert will premiere next Sunday (July 24) at 8.30pm. The telemovie has already screened in New Zealand, as a co-production with TVNZ partly. The cast includes Grant Bowler, Vince Colosimo, Damian Walshe-Howling, Dee Smart, Jessica Tovey Simone Kessell, and Anna Hutchison.*Sydney and Brisbane will see the season finale of CSI: Miami on Monday July 25 at 9:30pm. Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth have already seen the episode.*Hamish and Andy's Gap Year premieres on Thursday July 28 at 8:30pm. Hamish Blake and Andy Lee has rented a warehouse in Brooklyn as temporary studio for the show, and a competition is being held on Austereo's Today FM network (including 2DayFM in Sydney and Fox in Melbourne) for lucky listeners to travel to New York for the show.

GO!*The season final of Hellcsts will air on Sunday July 24 at 4:30pm.*The season final of Community will air on Sunday July 24 at 5:30pm. Two episodes have been skipped in the season due to an M rating.*GO! will be screening the all new season 2 of UK sci-fi series Primeval starting Tuesday July 26 at 7:30pm.*Take 40 Presents: GAGA Live at Sydney Monster Hall will air on Friday July 29 at 6pm, and simulcast on the Today FM network. The one-off concert, hosted by Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O from 2DayFM, was held at the Sydney Town Hall last Wednesday in front of 1500 diehard fans. It was controversial as Lady Gaga sat on a wheelchair during part of her performance.

Gem*The sixth season final of The Closer will air Wednesday July 27 at 9:30pm. That means that the channel has the option to fast track seventh and final season that started in America on July 11.*The first season of Rizzoli and Isles draws to a close on Wednesday July 27 at 10:30pm. That means that the channel also has the option to fast track the second season that started in America on July 11.

Channel Ten*From Monday July 18, Ten will return Ten Late News with Sports Tonight back to 10:30 with the encore screening of 6.30 with George Negus now being dropped from the line-up.*Now that Ten know that Seven will be airing new Law & Order: Los Angeles on Thursdays opposite SVU, Ten have decided to resume new episodes of their show - episode 21 of the current season airs Thursday July 21 at 8:30pm. There are 4 new episodes available to Ten.*The much anticipated new reality series The Renovators begins next weekend. The Sydney-based series will begin on Sunday July 24 at 8:30pm after MasterChef and will run for 70 minutes. The Renovators will debut on Sunday July 24th after MasterChef on Ten. In the opening episode we will see the massive set - a whopping 13,000 square metres warehouse at Rosebery in Sydney, filled with challenges for the 26 hopeful renovators.Going for three months, the renovators will tackle six houses from hell. The task is to take the wrecks and turn them into real estate gold. They will also face challenges that will test their skills and see them battle it out to keep their place in the competition.To see who gets which house - a series of tasks are set, with the winners recieving keys to a house and hence becoming the head renovator for that property.On Monday, July 25, the challengers have 48 hours to completely renovate a house that is delivered to the warehouse, with the winner getting the first set of keys. The 70 minute episode will air at 8:40pm, pushing back Can of Worms to 9:50pm with Law & Order: Criminal Intent out of the line-up.Tuesday apparently is the simplest test - hammering a nail straight into a block of wood, but the twist is...? This episode will air at 8pm after MC and again run for 70 minutes.In the Wednesday challenge two teams will each renovate two terrace homes. Valued before the renovations start and after - the team with that has increased their property value the most will win. It is a 70 minute episode starting at 8:30pm.Finally on Thursday the teams have to breathe new life into old car parts in a battle fo the last set of keys. It will be a 60 minute episode screening at 8:30pm. Law & Order: SVU will air an episode at 9:30pm but it will be a repeat.The Renovators is produced by Shine Australia and Channel Ten. It is hosted by Brendan Moar, with design director of Phooey Architects in Melbourne Peter Ho, design consultant (and editor of Vogue Living for 10 years) Robyn Holt and Barry du Bois (who has enjoyed a 30-year building career and was lured back from retirement for the show) as judges.*There will be no mid season break of Stargate: Universe as there was in America. Eleven will go straight into the second half of the second and final season of this popular science fiction series starting Thursday July 28 at 8:30pm. This episode aired in March in the US.

ABC*Season 3 of UK political comedy The Thick of It airs on the ABC this week. Filmed in 2009, there are 8 episodes in this season. A fourth series has also been commissioned. It returns 10:00pm Thursday July 21 on ABC2.*UK supernatural drama Marchlands begins on ABC1 next week. It tells the story of three different families living in the same house at three different time periods, in 1968, 1987 and 2010. The families are linked by the ghost of a little girl, Alice, who drowned in a tragic accident in 1967 in local lake ‘Blackwater Tarn’. The episodes are multi stranded and a number of characters appear in more than one time frame. It begins 8:25pm Saturday July 23 on ABC1.*ABC2 will give Friday Night Lights another free to air shot. It's one of the most acclaimed dramas in the US, yet when it aired previously on TEN HD it never really attracted much attention. It subsequently played on Pay TV.More than just a drama about a football team, this series was awarded a Peabody Award, a Humanitas Prize, and a Television Critics Association Award, Writers Guild of America Award as well as several technical Emmy Awards. ABC2 begins the series from the very first episode at 8.30pm Friday July 29.*Misfits is returning to ABC2. The second season starts at 9.30pm Friday July 29. This UK drama was one of 2010′s hidden gems and deservedly picked up a BAFTA Award for Best Drama. Season 1 is now available on DVD from Roadshow Entertainment.

SBS*A premiere Australian factual series has been given a pretty surprising timeslot by SBS: 6pm Saturdays from July 30 on SBS ONE. Behind the Front Door, an 11 part series produced by FremantleMedia, goes behind the doors of local neighbourhoods in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to profile "the surprising, remarkable and inspiring stories of everyday people". The show was originally due to air 7:30pm Friday nights.*New episodes of Letters and Numbers will return on August 1 at 6pm on SBS ONE after the conclusion of Tour de France.*Season 2 of controversial series Swift and Shift Couriers has been pushed back two weeks by SBS. Instead of starting Monday August 1, it will now air from Monday 15 August at 8.30pm on SBS ONE.Created and directed by Paul Fenech (Fat Pizza), the series sees the return of Ian Turpie, Melissa Tkautz, Angry Anderson and Amanda Keller.

Seven won the night in primary channels and combined shares, while Ten won in 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demographics in both primary channels and combined shares.The main contributors to Seven's win were the 6pm news and the season finale of Downton Abbey, which trounced its rivals but pulled just less than 1.6 million viewers. That was partly due to the poor lead-in from National Geographic documentary Great Migrations, which came third in the 7.30pm timeslot, just ahead of Grand Designs on ABC1. The return of Sunday Night held up well against The Block.Speaking of The Block, its return to the traditional 6.30pm timeslot (where it dominated so much in 2003 and 2004) paid instant dividends. It peaked at 2.2 million viewers and won in all major demos. It built up from the Nine News lead-in in all cities except Sydney where it lost 98,000 viewers from the Nine News lead-in. The Block gave 60 Minutes a much needed ratings boost, but the season finale of The Mentalist still struggled.With Dancing with the Stars over for another year, MC finally broke the shackles and made a late surge with three weeks remaining in the season. Merlin was hit hard by The Block and SN, while movie Die Hard 4.0 posted its free-to-air figure (premiere or repeat).

Seven has much to thank Nine for the former's good performance last night. By moving the high-ratings room reveal episode of The Block from Monday to Sunday from this week, Nine gave Seven's current shaky Monday line-up a much-needed reprieve. BS repeats and CIU both went up, with TAR also bouncing back from recent lows. The result was Seven only losing to Nine by 0.3% in primary channels but won the night in combined shares by a small margin.As the result of the re-shuffle, The Block lost nearly 200,000 viewers from last Monday but still won its timeslot fairly easily. RSO hit a new season high, passing the 900,000 mark for the first time.MC posted another impressive total but The 7pm Project was not able to celebrate its 500th episode in style, coming fourth in its timeslot. Can of Worms was relatively steady from last week. Eleven had a rare win in digital channels last night with its line-up of Neighbours, Supernatural and Being Human (US) (which pulled 162,000) doing quite well.

The second preliminary final of AGT posted a massive audience figure, helping Seven to a romping win in both primary channels and total people. W&L also did well. 7mate and 7TWO were equal first in digital channels, the first time it has occurred.MC was hit hard by AGT, attracting one of its lowest audience for an immunity challenge episode. Surprisingly, both NCIS repeat and the season finale of NCIS: LA posted gains. Bondi Vet and the late news rated well also.The new season of Top Gear UK started badly on Nine, partly because of viewers getting confused by the network's arrangement of showing repeats one week and new episode the next.

Offspring ended its second season on a high, attracting one million viewers (according to Ten's own timing) and winning its timeslot. Combined with excellent ratings for MC (however it lost 100,000 viewers from last week), Ten won in primary channels as well as 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demographics in both primary channels and combined shares. Nine had to rely on GO! and Gem to win the night in combined shares. The Block dropped a bit from Tuesday but Top Design suffered a huge drop, losing more than 350,000 viewers from last week's premiere.Seven came third in both primary channels and combined shares but still leads the week by a decent margin. Seven's night was not helped by its lacklustre line-up.

Nine had a clean sweep last night: wins in total people, primary channels, digital channels, as well as major demographics in both primary channels and digital channels. The Block was Nine's top-rated program of the night and beat MC yet again when they clashed between 7.30pm and 8pm. Hot Property and the final episode of Inside the Human Body posted solid figures.There was an interesting battle of legal dramas last night: Law & Order: SVU (Ten) v Law & Order: Los Angeles (Seven) v Crownies (ABC), and SVU clearly emerged on top, beating L&O: LA and Crownies convincingly. In fact, poor figures for L&O: LA, which had already been cancelled in the US, was part of the reason Seven came third last night.Tour de France telecast on SBS posted its best figure since 2008, as Australian cyclist and two-time Tour runner-up Cadel Evans chases his first ever overall victory.

SBS's telecast of Tour de France posted a new record high, smashing the previous mark of 563,000 set in 2008. Last night's gruelling 109.5km stage to Alpe d'Huez, in which Cadel Evans overcame a mechanical problem to finish fourth for the stage (he is now third overall and 57 seconds behind the leader, Luxembourg's Andy Schleck), is now the most watched individual program on SBS in 2011, just above the final episode of Go Back to Where You Came From on June 23 (600,000).Seven narrowly beat Nine to win in both primary channels and total people. Even though the Crows were trounced by St Kilda by 103 points in last night's AFL clash, the telecast still did well in Adelaide.Nine's NRL coverage rated very well (in particular, the Storm-Broncos match had roughly the same number of viewers in Brisbane and Sydney). The Block won its timeslot easily.MC MasterClass suffered a big drop, with no big name chefs appearing.

Seven won last week in total people thanks largely to the finale of Downton Abbey and the preliminary final of Australia's Got Talent, but fell to third place in all key demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.Nine won the the demos last week and unusually Ten came second.Seven won Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Nine won Wednesday and Thursday. Ten bettered Seven on Wednesday and Thursday.Seven won Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth but Nine won Sydney and Brisbane.

SBS's coverage of Tour de France set new audience record two nights in a row and broke into the night's top 10 programs, as Cadel Evans finished second in the time trial in Grenoble and took the overall lead in the process. More people are set to tune in tonight as he rides his way into Paris to become the first Australian to win the Tour. SBS One posted a healthy 10.6% share as the result, a level not seen since The Ashes cricket series in England in 2009.The combination of Tri-Nations rugby and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were enough for Nine to win in primary channels, but Seven won in combined shares thanks again to 7TWO. Martin Clunes' new documentary won its timeslot in Perth and was competitive in Brisbane and Adelaide.The AFL did very well in Melbourne at night.